I believe in Crawford's skills more than I ever do with porter and swift...those 2 lost in the way I thought they would lose...getting their heads boxed off soundly lol
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Bleed The Freak
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Manny ain't Broner, who only looks good against the DeMarco' s or Gavin Reese of the worlds.
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Bleed The Freak
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Him fighting a tuneup and not Andrade financially makes sense but as a fan is bullshyt
I saw that DAZN didn't have the full replay of the Bivol/Smith card last night. I hit up support, and they told me they had problems encoding the whole thing so they only put up a few fights plus the highlights. Then I was told they would only have the full card up for a week anyways. Ridiculous, they wanna be the Netflix of sports but they don't even have their own content available on-demand. I like the moves they're making with the signings, but shyt like this plus the general bugginess of the UI leaves me unimpressed
And Mikey ain’t been beating up scrubs the past few years like manny lol.....cmon man
Correct me if I’m wrong, because if I am I’d love to know. Was Broner viewed as a scrub when he fought AB? No. Was it viewed as a close fight going on? Yes? What happened? Porter embarrasses Broner minus one punch. Again who’s Crawford best win that he’s getting overlooked?
reservoirdogs
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Broner at 140/147 is around the same level as dudes like J. Vargas, Postol, Dulorme, Ugas, Diaz, Peterson, Horn, Granados... These are all solid B fighters who may have little differences in level between them but they are roughly in the same league and they can either lose clearly or make shyt hot to B+/A- fighters like Porter or Swift depending on the style matchup and the form they can bring on the given night. It seems like the difference melted in the recent 1-2 years or so.
While fighters like Spence, Crawford who are the A/A+ level to me always beat these good, B level fighters clearly and if they lose to them that counts for a huge upset.
I'm not shytting on Porter's and Swift's resume, especially Swift's is good but at the same time it's a legit point that these dudes sometimes struggled with the same level of fighters who Crawford always beat convincingly. That's an important factor too in evaluating a fighter.
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Bleed The Freak
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I saw that DAZN didn't have the full replay of the Bivol/Smith card last night. I hit up support, and they told me they had problems encoding the whole thing so they only put up a few fights plus the highlights. Then I was told they would only have the full card up for a week anyways. Ridiculous, they wanna be the Netflix of sports but they don't even have their own content available on-demand. I like the moves they're making with the signings, but shyt like this plus the general bugginess of the UI leaves me unimpressed
I had issues with it too.
I couldn't fast forward to the main event but could fast forward on the phone cause I fell asleep.
They better fix this shyt quick.
You can't have replay issues.
reservoirdogs
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TR really started to network with the UK scene
People on here were saying Spence is a pound for pound fighter BEFORE the Algieri fight too.
But have a problem with triple g resume.
Why does this guy love talking about laxatives so much
Manny couldn't beat
Porter
Danny Garcia
Technically Mikey Garcia
Khan
Peterson
Ali
Vargas- already did
Brook
Dulorme
Berto
Broner- already did
Thurman
Berto, Khan, Peterson, Brook, Ali all get stopped. Yes I said that knowing his last true stop wasn't a shopworn Lucas but Cotto.
Thurman is close
Porter and his chin first style gets dropped and loses a wide UD
Danny gets outworked
Dulorme gets wiped out
Mikey loses off activity
None of this is proven. All we have is him beating 2 140 lb gatekeepers...at 147.
And a life & death battle with Jeff Horn that could've went either way.
I don't rate fighters based on hypotheticals.
Jeff Horn...the only natural Welterweight he's faced in recent years, he went life & death with. And Jeff Horn is NOT and elite Welterweight...as Terence Crawford proved.
All we have to go on as far as Pac's true current Welterweight capability is his fight Jeff Horn. And that wasn't a performance that tells up he would beat 90% of the division.
Adam Kownacki Draws Interest, Offers From DAZN, ESPN, PBC
By Keith Idec
Even Deontay Wilder’s potential opponents have various attractive options.
Multiple sources have informed BoxingScene.com that undefeated Polish heavyweight contender Adam Kownacki is considering offers from Bob Arum, Al Haymon and Eddie Hearn to fight on the platforms with which those three power brokers have content agreements. Kownacki’s past two fights, victories over Charles Martin and Gerald Washington, were part of Haymon’s “Premier Boxing Champions” cards and broadcast by Showtime and FOX, respectively.
If Kownacki (19-0, 15 KOs) were to sign with Arum’s Top Rank Inc., his fights would be broadcast by ESPN or be streamed by ESPN+, the platform ESPN executive want to help build by streaming meaningful heavyweight fights through it. If Kownacki picks Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing USA, DAZN would stream his fights.
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Keith Connolly, Kownacki’s manager, declined to discuss specifics of the offers he has fielded regarding Kownacki.
“Promoters have been reaching out about Adam,” Connolly told BoxingScene.com. “Al Haymon and I will be meeting this week to finalize his next date, which I expect to be in May or June. We will also discuss which channel or platform is the most lucrative for Adam going forward. It’s a great time to be a boxer. There has never been this much money and opportunity in the sport.
“Adam, in my opinion, is a top-five heavyweight. He is looking to advantage of that, and hopefully fight for a title in the next year or so.”
The 29-year-old Kownacki could fight Wilder later this year or at some point in 2020 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Kownacki’s hometown. Kownacki has established himself as a ticket-seller at Barclays Center and has told BoxingScene.com he is confident the building would be sold out if he challenged Wilder (40-0-1, 39 KOs) there for the Alabama-based knockout artist’s WBC title.
Kownacki knocked out Washington (19-3-1, 12 KOs) in the second round January 26 at Barclays Center. Eight of Kownacki’s past 10 fights have taken place at Barlcays Center, home of the NBA’s Nets.
Wilder, meanwhile, is considering sizeable offers from DAZN and ESPN as well. DAZN reportedly is prepared to present Wilder this week with a two-fight contract that would be worth at least $50 million overall.
FOX and Showtime, either live on the network or on pay-per-view, have televised Wilder’s fights throughout his championship reign the past four years.
man this makes no sense.
Everyone's got that start-up seed money to blow right now.
We were talking about this shyt 6 months ago, and now boxers are starting to realize they should take advantage of the marketplace before it dries up in a year
Everyone's got that start-up seed money to blow right now.
We were talking about this shyt 6 months ago, and now boxers are starting to realize they should take advantage of the marketplace before it dries up in a year
it all started with the likes of maurice hooker and tevin farmer..boxing is so weird at times lol